Konnichiwa

Just few weeks ago, we had a Indian summer but definitely the autumn has arrived. The air is cooler and my sun flowers are ending their life. The Japanese always say “Autumn is the best season for eating and reading books.

Today I introduce some simple words which are related to Autumn. I must say that learning Japanese is far more difficult than learning English. While English language has one character of alphabet, Japanese language has three characters of katakana and Kanji and grammatically how to structure sentences is totally different from English. For that reasons, it is sometimes discouraging to study. However, learning simple words can be easy way to start.

You might have already known some of them! Hope this blog is of any help for your study. I states English words, Japanese words, it’s kanji and it’s hiragana.

Let’s try!!!

Japanese Onomatopoeia can be used for Autumn

ぎおんご

English	PRONOUNCENSION	JAPANESE ONOMATOPOEIA
The autumn sky had cleared to a deep blue color	ao ao	秋空は青々と晴れ上がっていた
dead leafs drop little	para para	枯れ葉がぱらぱら落ちる
if you are so slow all mushrooms will be taken by others	guzu guzu	ぐずぐすしていると　きのこ誰かにとられちゃう
Children are exciting to run	waku waku	こどもたちはかっけこをわくわくしている
light and fluffy clouds	fuwa fuwa	ふわふわした雲
rain heavily	za- za-	雨がざあざあーと降る
a shooting stars flows fast	shu-n	流れ星がシューンと流れる
rain little	potsu potsu	雨がポツポツ
harvest rice fields quickly	sassa	稲刈りをさっさとする
Cosmos bloom in a row	zurari	コスモスがずらりと咲いている
put chrysanthemum tightly in a vase	gisshiri	菊の花をぎっしりいれる
gather persimmons more and more	don don	柿をどんどん集める
A autumn river flows gently	sara sara	秋の川がさらさらと流れる
break a chestnut	passatto	パサッとわる
A grasshopper cries	gi-chon	ギーチョン

We express various sounds, which are surrounding us and hear, in words, that is onomatopoeia (giongo). Compare with English language, Japanese language has much more onomatopoeia. We quite often use them. Describing animated lives, vehicles, human beings, nature and our life style. I have outlined some of them below which may be used to express for something related to Summer. Do you know them?

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy and learn something new. Let’s keep on learning more Japanese words!!!